Boxer remembered as winner in ring, life

4:51 PM,
Nov. 7, 2012

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The iconic framed photograph by Sports Illustrated's Hy Peskin showed Carmen Basilio celebrating in the arms of his cornermen and Tony DeMarco down on the canvas.

Years later, before DeMarco was to pay a visit to his home in Irondequoit, Mr. Basilio took the photograph down off the wall so his friend and former combatant in the ring didn't have to relive that 12th-round TKO in 1955 at smoke-filled Boston Garden in a rematch for the world welterweight title.

"I remember hearing about that," DeMarco, 80, said Wednesday by phone from Boston. "It says a lot about him. Carmen was an exceptional ...